There was a quote in the Roundtable from one of the board members about how valuable every employee is - regardless of how far they removed they are from students. As a recently retired teacher: No. No, many of the highly-paid staff at JEH are NOT valuable. They've already begun cutting resources for teachers this year, making differentiation much more difficult for teachers, esp. SPED teachers. Families want high-quality teachers and teacher retention? It's only going to get worse.
Biz is full of shit. She went out of her way to make that remark because she is trying to mitigate the criticism that will most deservedly come her (and the Board’s) way because this ostentatious display of JEH salary sits squarely at her feet. They hired the con man in secret. They paved the way with gold bricks for him to do whatever he wanted and hire whomever he wanted. We are stuck with the current super because he hired her (when CPS won’t?!?!) and she returns the nepotism favor by hiring her sister! When exactly WILL this madness end? This is a tale that if you switched the names to Trump and his kids and changed a few details, it would all ring very true. That’s why I am constantly flummoxed as to why it is happening here. Let me be clear: NOT ALL District employees are valuable. And I know of several current volunteers who are for sure not, too!
And let's not forget that before Biz was a consultant, she was....an administrator. At NU's Women's Center. So, not super surprising that she perceives great value in the layer of admin folks residing at the JEH. As someone who formerly worked as an administrator at NU myself, I can attest that while we certainly made some useful contributions, our impact on the students' education didn't come anywhere close to that of the professors in the classroom.
There was a quote in the Roundtable from one of the board members about how valuable every employee is - regardless of how far they removed they are from students. As a recently retired teacher: No. No, many of the highly-paid staff at JEH are NOT valuable. They've already begun cutting resources for teachers this year, making differentiation much more difficult for teachers, esp. SPED teachers. Families want high-quality teachers and teacher retention? It's only going to get worse.
Biz is full of shit. She went out of her way to make that remark because she is trying to mitigate the criticism that will most deservedly come her (and the Board’s) way because this ostentatious display of JEH salary sits squarely at her feet. They hired the con man in secret. They paved the way with gold bricks for him to do whatever he wanted and hire whomever he wanted. We are stuck with the current super because he hired her (when CPS won’t?!?!) and she returns the nepotism favor by hiring her sister! When exactly WILL this madness end? This is a tale that if you switched the names to Trump and his kids and changed a few details, it would all ring very true. That’s why I am constantly flummoxed as to why it is happening here. Let me be clear: NOT ALL District employees are valuable. And I know of several current volunteers who are for sure not, too!
I was at the school board meeting last night, and that was Biz that made that remark. It was infuriating then. And it still is now.
And let's not forget that before Biz was a consultant, she was....an administrator. At NU's Women's Center. So, not super surprising that she perceives great value in the layer of admin folks residing at the JEH. As someone who formerly worked as an administrator at NU myself, I can attest that while we certainly made some useful contributions, our impact on the students' education didn't come anywhere close to that of the professors in the classroom.